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Bertrand Bacqué

Bertrand Bacqué (PhD) is associate professor of cinema at the HEAD - Geneva (HES-SO). He has organized several symposiums, including Dans l'antre du chat (2011), devoted to the work of Chris Marker, and Editing Arts! Montage en mouvement at HEAD - Geneva. In 2015, he co-edited Jeux sérieux, cinéma et art contemporain transforment l'essai and, in 2018, Montage. Une anthologie (1913-2018) published by HEAD and MAMCO. His current research focuses on the essay, montage and series.
  • Dossier #21

    Contemporary Mini-Series or the Powers of the In-Between

    8 publications

    The production of mini-series continues to grow, initiated by both television channels and streaming platforms, and increasingly supported by actresses and actors from the film industry. Miniseries such as …

  • We Own This City, a coda to The Wire

    by
    • Bertrand Bacqué

    With We Own This City (2022), David Simon returns to his favourite city, Baltimore. Based on Justin Fenton's barely fictionalised investigation, he offers a mini-series that is as dry in its narrative as it is implacable in its indictment of…

  • Politics and Aesthetics of Film Montage

    From Cinema to Installation

    by
    • Claire Atherton
    • Bertrand Bacqué
    • Doreen Mende
    • Olivier Zuchuat

    Against a deluge of images, certain forms of montage, compilation and spatialization allow for a critical engagement with images. Doreen Mende looks back at the approaches of Soviet women editors and the artist Harun Farocki, who distinguished…

  • Film Montage and its Effects

    by
    • Bertrand Bacqué
    • Dominique Chateau
    • Alexandra Midal
    • Dork Zabunyan

    Montage is one of the privileged instruments of cinema for directing the attention and emotions of the spectators. Alfred Hitchcock, who defined himself as a director of spectators before being a director of actors, agreed with this. This series of…

  • Sound, Narrative, Performative and Spatial Sequences

    by
    • Bertrand Bacqué
    • Loïse Bulot
    • Carla Demierre
    • Arielle Meyer MacLeod
    • Joaquim Moreno
    • Nicolas Rabaeus
    • Roberto Zancan

    These lectures highlight the physical and material dimension of montage in various contexts outside cinema. Through musical composition, theatre, architecture or literary creation, montage can be a technique as much as a subject or a metadiscourse; one…

  • Juxtapositions and Hyperlinks

    Montage from Comics to Digital Cultures

    by
    • Bertrand Bacqué
    • Chloé Galibert-Laîné
    • Delphine Jeanneret
    • Selim Krichane
    • Nicolas Nova
    • Frederik Peeters

    This series of lectures approaches the notion of montage in arts and activities close to cinema such as new media, video games and comics. Freeing himself from cinemacentrism, Frederik Peeters defends the position that montage in comics takes place in…